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I am re-discovering on an almost daily basis, just how engrossing, how enthralling researching on the Internet can be. There is so much information out there, so much to see, so much to learn. I thought that I had completed all of the research that I needed, but every now and again I am brought up short and have to go online to find some little factual item that I had missed.

I found, some time ago, that using the Internet to answer one question inevitably leads to the asking of another one – or even more questions. One website leads on to another and another, ad infinitum.

One can begin by asking about vitamins and end up reading about voyaging to mars. It is captivating and time consuming in the most fascinating way.

There is, of course, an element of escapism in all of this. One is supposed to be writing but hitting that temporary impasse is an excuse to go off and spend some time grazing in the many fields of knowledge provided by the online community.

The Internet is, at the same time, a life enhancing and time wasting experience. It is enriching and debilitating, satisfying and frustrating. It is, for a writer, a constant distraction.

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Blogging a work in Progress

This blog will, for me, chart my progress as I try to bend my shoulder to the wheel and finally write a book, a work of fiction, that I researched some time ago. The working title of the book is, The Shield Of The Bear, and only God knows how long it is going to take me to write it.
Sometime in the dim and distant past I gave up on writing, probably because I suffered one or two disappointments which allowed laziness to creep in - but there was always something missing.
Now, the path that my life has taken recently has brought me back to a long-lost love and a closer, easier relationship.

How Do You…

How do you express a desire to write?
How do you quantify the disapointment when you don't; or the excitement when you do?
How do you quantify an elan?